quintuplicate

American  

[kwin-too-pli-kit, -tyoo-, kwin-too-pli-keyt, -tyoo-] / kwɪnˈtu plɪ kɪt, -ˈtyu-, kwɪnˈtu plɪˌkeɪt, -ˈtyu- /

noun

1. a group, series, or set of five copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten matter.

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adjective

1. noting or consisting of five identical parts; fivefold.

2. pertaining to a fifth item or copy of something.

verb (used with object)

quintuplicated, quintuplicating

1. to produce or copy in quintuplicate.

2. to make five times as great, as by multiplying.

idioms

1. in quintuplicate, in five identical copies.

quintuplicate British  

adjective

1. fivefold or quintuple

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verb

1. to multiply or be multiplied by five

noun

1. a group or set of five things

Other Word Forms

• quintuplication noun

Etymology

Origin of quintuplicate

1650–60; quintu(ple) + -plicate, after duplicate, triplicate, etc.

Example Sentences

Their graduates have brought modern office tools to an FBI that still cannot buy a box of pencils without filling out Form FD 369 in quintuplicate — using carbon paper.

From Time • Apr. 28, 2011

Still another wondered if the government bureaucracy could not cut back on its quintuplicate forms so that the toilet paper shortage could be alleviated.

From Time Magazine Archive

An additional liability: a prose style with the numbing quintuplicate cadence of a Government form.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not a rivet fell, but that its fall was noted—in quintuplicate.

From The Misplaced Battleship by Schoenherr, John